NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1789 points

8% slightly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

37 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

32 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

22 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

21 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3292 points

12% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2939 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

264.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

28312 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

21520 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29934 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

23785 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32085 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

26093 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

24516 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23881 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

1038 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

31% slightly higher boost clock speed

1127 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

19% slightly higher memory bandwidth

160.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

25% slightly lower TDP

100 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

72.13 Gigapixels/s

1% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s

9% slightly higher texture rate

108.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS

9% slightly better floating point performance

3.46 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

1536

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

20% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

222nd of 586

231st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 980M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980M in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980M at 100 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q is faster than the GeForce GTX 980M.